Wool-oiling machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ARTHUR SPENCER, OF GREENBUSH, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO F. O.HUYCK & SONS, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

WOOL-OILING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,628, dated January28, 1896.

Application filed 511116 11, 1895. Serial No. 552,412. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE ARTHUR SPEN- GER, of Greenbush, in the countyof Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in VVool-Oiling Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in attachments to machines forpicking wool and other similar material in the process of preparing thestock for the subsequent operation of manufacturing goods therefrom; andit consists of the mechanism, substantially as herein shown anddescribed, for attaching to a picking-machine adapted to the purposeabove set forth.

In some climates, but especially in America, all woolen stock requiresto be oiled and dampened before it is in proper condition to make intoyarn preparatory to its being converted into merchantable goods, eitherWoven or. knit; and it is well known that the proportions of the oil anddampening material require to be varied to suit the prevailingconditions of the atmosphere. Under the present practice it is usual toemploy a chemical agent to effect a commingling of the oil and water,but this practice is open to the objection that the wool is liable to bedamaged by the chemical agent.

The object of my invention is to provide facilities for applying theproper proportions of oil and water to the wool to be treated withoutrecourse to any chemical agent, and I attain this object by the meansherein described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, whichare herein referred to and form part of this specification, and in whichFigure l is an end elevation of portions of a well-known form ofwool-picking machine with my invention attached thereto; Fig. 2, ahorizontal section of the same at the line X X of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, avertical section of Fig. 1 at the line Y Y, and Fig. 4 a detached detailshowing mechanism for operating the pendulous discharge-pipes and otherparts of my invention.

As represented in the drawings, A designates the framework of an old andwellknown form of picker-machine, of which, being no part of myinvention, only a small portion is shown; B, the feeding-table of saidmachine made and arranged in the usual manner; O, a frame erected on thefeeding-table B and provided with ahorizontal shelf D, which carries atank E, provided with two compartments, one of which is provided forcontaining water or other dampening material and the other forcontaining oil or other fluid greasy material.

From the bottom of each compartment of the tank E there are separatedischarge-pipes F and G, one of which is appropriated to thewater-compartment and the other to the oilcompartment. Jointed tothepipe F is a pendulous pipe H, and jointed to the pipe G is a pendulouspipe I, the two pendulous pipes being connected together by a yoke J sothat the two pipes will move in unison. The two pend ulous pipes areeach provided with a separate stop-cock K, to govern the outflow of theparticularfluid contained in the compartment to which either of thependulous pipes is ap propriated.

L is a revoluble cylindrical brush whose axis is arranged horizontallyabove the feeding-table B, and which is preferably rotated from gearingdriven by the shaft of the pickercylinder. The bristles of said brushshould have sufficient resilience to enable them to spring back whenretarded by a blade M, which is arranged to engage with the outer endsof the bristles intermittently dnrin g the rotations of the brush L, soas to effect the discharge of the oil and water from the bris-- tles,said oil and water being delivered onto the bristles by the vibratorymotions of the pendulous pipes H and I. On one end of the shaft of thebrush L there is a bevel-pinion 1, which engages in a bevel-Wheel 2,that is secured to a shaft journaled in a bracket 3, secured to theframe 0. The bevel-wheel 2 is provided with a wrist-pin 4, which engageswith a vibratile arm 5, that is fulcrumed, as at 6, to the bracket 7,and the upper end of the arm '5 is connected by a link 8 to the yoke J,and thereby the required vibrations are imparted to the pendulous pipesH and I to effect the required distribution of the oil and water ontothe bristles of the brush L, such distribution being extendedsubstantially the entire length of the brush L.

N is a crank-wheel secured to the outer end of the shaft that carriesthe brush L. Said crank-wheel is provided with a wrist-pin 9, to which aconnecting-rod 10 is jointed. The lower end of the connectingd'od 10connects with a pair of plungers of the pumps O,which are so arrangedthat one of said pumps will draw its supply of oil or water from asupplytank P and the other pump will draw its supply of water or oilfrom the other supplytank Q, said pumps being arranged to deliver theirdischarge, either water or oil, into the appropriate compartment of thetank E that is to say, the oil being discharged into one of saidcompartments and the water into the other. The tank E is provided withoverflow-pipes 11 and 12, which are arranged to conduct any surplusageof liquid from the compartments back to the supply-tank from which thesame has been drawn, and thereby all danger of overflowing thecompartments of the tank E will be avoided.

My invention operates in the following manner: Each of the compartmentsof the tank E being filled with the liquid to which it may beappropriated and the wool to be operated upon being distributed on thefeeding-table B in front of the brush L, in position to receive thespray from said brush, the stop-cocks K are opened sufficiently todischarge the required amount of liquid from each compartment of thetank E. The pickermachine is then set in motion, and thereby therequired rotatory motion is imparted to the brush L. Simultaneouslytherewith a vibratory motion is given to the pendulous pipes H and I toeffect a distribution of the oil and water lengthwise of the brush L.During the rotations of the brush L a continuous distribution of oil andwater will occur along the entire surface of said brush, and thesucceeding rows of bristles in the brush by engaging with the blade Mwill be bent backward, and on their release from engagement with saidblade said bristles will spring to their normal positions and therebyproduce a spray-form discharge of the commingled oil and water from saidbristles. Said discharge will be delivered upon the wool lying on thefeedingtable B in the line of said discharge, and thereby the wool willbe simultaneously dampened and oiled. hen the last-named operations areeffected the wool is fed into the picker-machine,which feeding can beeffected either automatically or manually, as may be preferred.

I do not limit myself to the tank-feeding pumps yoked together tooperate in unison, for I am aware that two pumps arranged to operateindependently can be employed to effeet a like purpose; nor do I limitmyself to pendulous pipes connected together to vibrate in the samedirection at the same instant, for it is obvious that the same resultmay be obtained by using two pendulous pipes that are arranged tovibrate independently of each other; but the arrangement herein shownand describedis the one that I prefer for the reason of its simplicity.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-

l. The combination, with a picker or other analogous machine, of arevoluble brush provided with resilient bristles, meanssubstantially asspecified-for revolving said brush, a blade arranged to deflect saidbristles, pendulous-pipes-one for oil and another for water-placeddirectly over and arranged to swing in the direction of the length ofsaid brush, and means-substantially as describedfor eifecting theswinging of said pipes; the deflection of said bristles and a return totheir normal positions effecting a spraying of the liquids over the woolon the feeding-table of the machine, substantially as herein specified.

2. The combination of separate supplytanks-one for oil and another forwater, a distributing-tank or tanks comprising separate compartments foroil and water, apump or pumps arranged to draw the liquids from theappropriate supply-tank and deliver the same into the properdistributing tank or compartment, pendulous pipes each communicatingwith its appropriate distributing-tank or compartment,meanssubstantially as specifiedfor swinging said pendulous pipes, andoverflow pipes connecting said compartments with the propersupply-tanks, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with a distributingt-ank provided with separatecompartments for containing diiferent liquids, of pendulouspipes, andmeans substantially as described-for vibrating said pipes; each of saidpendulous-pipes leading from a different compartment and each having acock for regulating the outflow of liquid from said pipe, and for thepurpose specified.

GEORGE ARTHUR SPENCER.

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J. \V. FISHER, \VM. H. Low.

